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The flora of Morocco include tree that tolerate the comparatively tripping rainfall that characterise Mediterranean climate . In northern Morocco a tree called Berber thuya expand incoastal areasand low hilly regions . A little cork oak tree woodland flourish in northwestern Morocco . Other Maroc trees are the cypress , juniper and the holm oak . Even the cedar of Lebanon rears its imposing head in Morocco .
Maquis
A Maquisard is a dumb shaggy area . In Morocco a Maquisard check small trees like the risky olives , acacia , and carob . Many are evergreen , like the mastic bush or the sarsaparilla vine . A fan decoration scream Chamaerops humilis also pass off , but as its name imply , it does not grow very tall .
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Garrigue
Northern Morocco also contains another type of area forebode a garrigue . A garrigue plays innkeeper to scrubby flora like salvia and French lavender , as well as species with beautiful flower , such as , the rockrose . Here and elsewhere in Morocco you will also get a aboriginal grass telephone " esparto grass . "
Atlas Flora
Onobrychis cornuta , an attractive plant with violet flower , pass off in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco . This plant is a member of the pea phratry , as is the medicative Astralagus , which inhabit in the same general area . Higher up the slope another appendage of the pea family call Vicia canescens finds its ecological niche . The Atlas Mountains also plays host to Chenopodium record album , which American farmers make out by the name " lamb ’s quarters . "
Desert Flora
As you journey southward in Morocco , the climate becomes increasingly more arid until you reach the Sahara Desert in the sou'-west . The cactus is not native to the Sahara , but Moroccans cultivate it commercially . rather of cacti Morocco has lush euphorbias that originate as large as trees . Cistanche violacea , a parasitic desert plant , has very beautiful flowers . The saltbush and sage brush are two plant that happen both in Morocco and in arid area of the United States .
Attractive Flowers
Moroccan flora includes colorful orchids of the genus Ophrys and Dactylorhiza . Silene vespertina , an attractive member of the pink family , is the Moroccan catchfly . Other colorful prime are irises , alyssums , and Isatis tinctoria , commonly called the woad .
Endemic Plants
Many endemic plant life reside in Morocco . A works is endemic if its compass is limit to a unmarried circumscribed domain . The argan is a thorny endemic tree diagram that lives in the arid due south while Ptilostemon leptophyllus is a composite plant that lodge in in the N . The Atlas Mountains are especially fertile in endemics .
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